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tumult [t(j)uməlt] n.骚动，暴动，吵闹。tumult来自词根*teue-，本意是swell肿胀，常见词如 thigh 大腿，大腿看上去确实是肿胀的样子。同样，人群骚动的时候，活动范围扩大，也像是膨胀的样子。同根词还有tumor, tumid, tuber, tuberculosis, protuberance，意思分别是肿瘤，肿块，块茎，结核，隆起。 Founded in 2012, Coinbase always wanted to be more than a place where people buy and sell digital monies. It aimed instead to become a bridge between the anarchic (无政府) cryptoworld and conventional finance. Though its history has been tumultuous at times, the firm is not far from its goal: users do not need a degree in cryptography to benefit from its services (though its customer support is notoriously wanting); it is on mostly good terms with regulators and banks; and, unlike other cryptoexchanges, it has so far avoided becoming the victim of a catastrophic hack. 成立于2012年的Coinbase一直希望不仅仅成为人们买卖数字货币的地方。相反，Coinbase的目标是成为无政府加密货币和传统金融之间的桥梁。尽管历史时有动荡，但Coinbase离自己的目标并不远:用户不需要加密学学位就能从中受益（尽管众所周知其欠缺客户支持）。Coinbase与监管机构和银行大多关系良好。此外，与其他加密货币交易所不同的是，Coinbase迄今没有遭遇过灾难性黑客攻击。 conceit [kənˈsiːt] n. 自负，自高自大，别出心裁的措辞；精心的比喻；幻想；奇想。Conceit和conceive(怀孕/构思)同源。其原始印欧语词根是*kap-，本意是抓住，同根词如accept。 Yet in Mr Higgs’s telling, the two British icons also embody contrasting attitudes to life and politics. He teases out this conceit with a critic’s attention to detail. The titular (徒具虚名的) villain of “Goldfinger” is in love with money, he notes; contemporaneously, the Beatles disparaged wealth in their single “Can’t Buy Me Love”. In the same Bond film, the hat belonging to Oddjob, a grisly assassin, “was a lethal weapon to be feared”. In the Beatles film “A Hard Day’s Night”, a similar hat is “a sign of pompous authority that needed to be mocked”. 然而，在希格斯先生的讲述中，(甲壳虫乐队和詹姆斯邦德)这两位英国偶像在生活和政治上有着截然不同的态度。他通过作为批评家对细节的关注，梳理出这种奇想。他指出，《007之金手指》中徒具虚名的反派喜欢金钱；而披头士则在单曲Can’t Buy Me Love中贬低财富。在同一部邦德电影中，恐怖刺客Oddjob的帽子“是令人恐惧的致命武器”。而在甲壳虫乐队的电影A Hard Day’s Night中，类似的帽子“象征着会被嘲笑的傲慢权威”。 moor [mʊr] vt. 使停泊；使固定; n. 沼泽。一说来自原始印欧语词根*mori-，意思是水体，同根词有...... |
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